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CLASSNOTES ACADEMY to 1934 Please send your news to the Office of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving 541 Main Street New London, NH 03257 e-mail: alumni@colby-sawyer.edu Please See In Fond Memory 1935 Sue Symons (daughter of the late Ethelyn “Jackie” Dorr Symons) 1088 Crockett Farm Road Coupeville, WA 98239 (360) 678-0403 Please See In Fond Memory 1936 Please send your news to the Office of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving 541 Main Street New London, NH 03257 e-mail: alumni@colby-sawyer.edu Please See In Fond Memory 1937 Please send your news to the Office of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving 541 Main Street New London, NH 03257 e-mail: alumni@colby-sawyer.edu 48 COLBY-SAWYER ALUMNI MAGAZINE Doris Nielsen Powell enjoyed her 92nd birthday in Apr. 2010 surrounded by her husband, friends and family at her residence in Ginger Cove, Annapolis, MD. She enjoys cards and can still beat most anyone at backgammon, both friends and staff. Her husband, Eliot, died in early Nov. Daughter Karen lives in FL and daughter Susie in TX, though she visits often as she works for Southwest Airlines. Please See In Fond Memory 1938 Mary Trafton Simonds 1010 Waltham Street Apartment 320 Lexington, MA 02421 (781) 862-7131 Thank you to the faithful few who promptly returned cards. Inez Gianfranchi Snowdon is volunteering at the Church Budget Box Shop and still in good health, anticipating the return to her summer camp at Great East Lake in Acton, ME. Betty Champlin Bottorf has her oldest daughter Sally living with her in CA—a true blessing for she “waited on her hand and foot” when she broke her kneecap in Nov. Much better now; she misses 3 great-grandchildren who live in Philadelphia. Barbara Symonds Ayers enjoyed the winter Alumni Magazine while awaiting a move to a new state-of-the-art building next door to her present home—Mt. View in Ossipee. Barb’s only grandchild is at Ithaca College. “No news except getting older” was Barbara Rounds Carson’s comment, with which I’m sure we all agree! Barbara’s problem is walking, but she has a wonderful caretaker and is hoping for another summer at the Popham Beach cottage they built in ’02. Also living in FL at the Isles of Vero is Barbara Knowles Merrill, a widow after 62 happy years of marriage. Fortunately, 3 of her 4 children live nearby. She’ll come north to East Sebago Lake, ME, her summer home, soon. Joan Davidson Whitney and her husband have lived 4½ years in a PA Send your news and photos to your class correspondent or to the Office of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving: e-mail: alumni@colby-sawyer.edu mail: Colby-Sawyer College Office of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving 541 Main Street New London, NH 03257 retirement home that’s expanding to 2,000 residents. What a great family: 6 children and 5 grandchildren! The Hotchkiss School granddaughter is attending a semester at the High Mt. Institute in CO, where they learn to be leaders. Nina Parker Gardner in North Hills had a 92nd birthday in Apr. Bet it was a great day thanks to daughter Barbara and the other 5 ladies living in the board and care home. My schedule keeps me busy and not driving makes it more of a problem. Celebrated 75 Hospital Talks Anniversary— I worked over 50 years on this, even writing history for the booklet. Received the “State Resolution” before David Gergen spoke. Please See In Fond Memory 1939 Class Correspondent Needed Please send your news to the Office of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving 541 Main Street New London, NH 03257 e-mail: alumni@colby-sawyer.edu Please See In Fond Memory 1940 Judy Conover Reinicker 107 Cardiff Court West Newark, DE 19711-3442 (302) 239-0965 e-mail: jreinicker@aol.com
Alumni Fall Festival Thanks to those who responded to my request for news. I would love to have more e-mail addresses. If you have one, please send it to me or to the Alumni Office. Janet Canham Williams writes, “Here I am a block away from campus in a good assisted living residence but macular degeneration says no more driving. Two sons and families live within 10 miles so I see them often.” Good to hear from Harriet Wickham Gorman (Wicky at Colby, now Toddy). She lost Bill 2 years ago. She is still in their home at Tangerine, FL, and spends her time developing their 8 acres into a parkland area. She is still playing golf and would love to hear from old friends. Betty Thomas Densmore and Jane Winey Heald were the only 2 from our class at our 60th reunion. They were thrilled that Marjorie Magnus Senior’s 2 daughters looked them up to represent their mother, now deceased. Betty is now living in a retirement community in Concord and is very active in their activities. She played the clarinet for 30 years and is now singing with several groups. She sang a part in “Brigadoon” with her community singers and volunteers at a health service center. Harriet Tillinghast Fuller enjoys seeing her great-grandson who lives nearby. She is still in the same home in West Hartford that she has had for the last 56 years. Margaret Van Duser Hurlbut has a busy life in Palm City, FL, and loves her retirement community. She has 8 great-grandchildren, but they all live up north so she doesn’t see them very often. Jeanne Schwob Homer stays active with a book club, and Save the Date! Our next Alumni Fall Festival is September 30– October 2, 2011! Reconnect with friends and classmates, and celebrate your college memories. www.colby-sawyer.edu/ alumni/fallfestival/ regularly attends the symphony and ballet. She had a wonderful 90th birthday celebration with her family and friends. As for me, I hit 90 in Feb. and had a wonderful celebration with the family. We’ll continue the celebration when we all get to our Canadian cottages in the summer. I now have 3 great-grandchildren and enjoy seeing them on Skype. Please See In Fond Memory 1941 Class Correspondent Needed Please send your news to the Office of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving 541 Main Street New London, NH 03257 e-mail: alumni@colby-sawyer.edu Editor’s Note: Special thanks to Janice Wilkins, who is stepping down as your class correspondent after serving faithfully since 2007. This is Janice’s final column. Still at Chester Village West in Chester, CT, is Arlene Dawson Knapp, who celebrated her 90th at Thanksgiving. Her children are good about helping and there are 6 great-grandchildren. At 90, Charlotte Cuddy Pozniak is still living alone in her home with the help of her daughters and a granddaughter. Her whole family, including 3 great-grandsons, lives nearby. She’d love to make a trip to NH. Like for many of us, macular degeneration makes it hard to read or track things on the computer, but Jacquie Sipley Cotter is still painting. She lives in a “wrinkle farm” in Philadelphia. Mary Louise Williams Haskell stayed in assisted living until Mar., as 2 of her children (Sarah Haskell ’70 and Weston) were sailing from Cape Town, South Africa, to Barbados. She feels fortunate to have wonderful family and friends who care about her. At Christmas I heard from Joan Russell Desmond that all is well. Her husband passed away June 2010 so now her companion is an adorable cat, Zoe. June Skinner-Peacock writes, “I will be 90 in June and am in good health. I’ve been widowed 3 times. I’m living in Raleigh, NC, near my daughter Ann and her family. Summers I spend in my mountain house. I paint, write, and enjoy life—a wonderful adventure!” Please See In Fond Memory 1942 Bobbie Boyd Bradley Jan. 1–May 1: 601 Seaview Court, C-311 Marco Island, FL 34145-2939 (239) 394-2881 E-mail: mimibrad@aol.com May 2–Dec. 31: 865 Central Avenue Apartment l-203 Needham, MA 02492 (781) 400-5249 E-mail: mimibrad@aol.com Betsy Short Cissel writes, “I now live in Belfast, ME. I have no grandchildren. My health has now taken a fall—no, I have not fallen, just not as good as I was!” Please See In Fond Memory 1943 Peg Morse Tirrell Post Office Box 37 Lower Waterford, VT 05848-0037 (802) 748-8538 e-mail: dptirrell@juno.com Sincere apologies for having no report in that wonderful last Colby magazine. That deadline fell during the period Doc had been sent home from the hospital to home health and wonderful hospice care. He passed away Dec. 29, 2009. Joan Creesy Eriksson writes, “Obviously I’m still alive and kicking, if not as high. I’m living in a retirement home with my own little apartment. My son, Andrew, has an antiquarian bookshop and talks about old books on the TV and radio. He has 2 girls. My daughter, Jennifer, is still training dressage riders in Germany. My husband died in 1979 so I am used to being on my own. I work for UNICEF and another local charity from time to time. And of course I have to have an English ‘Conversation’ group. I’d love to see old Colby and wish I could go to another reunion, but ‘recession’ is the word.” Jean Aronson Rea spent 1 week in ME in Aug. 2009. She tried to find Margaret “Peg” van Dine Jardine ’44, but no luck. As Natalie “Nat” Cordery Naylor wrote, “I am now living with son Gregory and his wife in Ledyard, CT, and am very happy here. I did have a Christmas card from Doris Douglas Butler.” Life is incredibly busy but fascinating for Elizabeth “Diana” Stretch Henry. She traveled to the Bahamas by yacht, then to Las Vegas for “Phantom of the Opera” and on to Yellowstone National Park. She has a new Newfoundland puppy, which she took to Geyser National Park this spring. “Not much exciting activities,” writes Mary Scheu Teach, as she had to give up active sports because of double hip replacements and poor balance. She’s doing Tai Chi and Yoga. She writes, “I have taken short trips with a daughter or 2 to visit family in VA and Buffalo. I hope to get down to see Sally King Cramer in Williamstown, MA, on her birthday. I continue to do volunteer work for our local Visiting Nurse Association and the First Baptist Church.” Now that Priscilla Coan Barnes is alone, she keeps very busy with volunteer work and is thankful for the good health to do it. Her daughter and married granddaughter live an hour away. They went to Branson, MO, twice last fall to see their favorite shows, and she flew to Chicago in June for another grandson’s wedding. Elizabeth “Diddy” Godfrey Brown is well and still driving around seeing friends and family. She has 2 greatgrandchildren. She was going to see Bobby Lutz Moore. I agree with Jean Thurman Ramsey that it is a sad note to write when it mentions her husband, Frank, died in May 2010. Other SUMMER 2011 49
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